Wen Hao Hsing

Evaluation of Manufacturing Technology and Characterization of Composite Fabric for Stab Resistant Materials

d more to their own safety, lead all kinds of personal protection apparatus to rapidly develop. This study designed and manufactured the stabbing resistant fabrics to prevent the pricking damage of human body. In this study, woven Kevlar fabric is laid between two layers of polyamide 6 fibrous webs that contain low-melt polyester fibers. The fibrous webs and woven fabric are bonded via needle punching and thermal bonding to generate a nonwoven/woven composite fabric that can be used as a substrate for artificial leather. The polyamide 6 staple fiber is the primary component of the nonwoven structure. The low-melt polyester fiber was added via thermal bonding to reinforce the composite fabric structure. The stab resistance of the composite fabric was reinforced by the woven Kevlar fabric. Because the bonding process alters the mechanical properties of the composite fabric, effects of bonding process conditions, such as needle punching density and thermal bonding temperature, on the mechanical properties and stab resistance of the composite fabric were investigated. The stab resistance of the composite fabric was assessed by stab resistance tests using the ASTM F1432 standard. Experimental results demonstrate that the optimal parameters obtained from sample which needle punching density is 200 needles/cm2

Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) Honeycomb Air Cushion Combined with Polylactic Acid (PLA) Nonwoven Fabric for Impact Protection

Honeycomb structures are widely used in various engineering fields, including construction, the auto industry, packaging, the aerospace industry, medicine, and sports. The hexagon cells generate excellent structures and reduce material waste. Honeycomb structures have very good mechanical properties and are low cost. Nonwoven fabric is widely used in many applications because the manufacturing process for nonwoven fabric is easy and fast. In this study, Polylactic Acid (PLA) nonwoven fabric and Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) honeycomb air cushion (TPU-HAC) materials were combined in a sandwich structure for impact protection. The PLA fibers and low-melting-point PLA fibers were used as raw materials to create PLA nonwoven fabric. The PLA fibers and low-melting-point PLA fibers were mixed at weight ratios of (10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%). The mixed fibers were processed using needle punching and thermal bonding to create PLA nonwoven fabric. Additionally, the TPU-HACs were layered to generate various thicknesses (2/8/10 mm, 4/6/10 mm, 6/4/10 mm, 8/2/10 mm). The layered TPU-HAC materials was clamped between two PLA nonwoven fabrics to form a sandwich structure. Impact resistance was assessed using a falling- weight impact-resistance machine. Experimental findings indicate that impact resistance of the sandwich structure of the TPU-HAC materials improved when thin TPU-HAC material was placed on the thick TPU-HAC material. This study demonstrates that the sandwich structure of TPU-HAC materials as excellent impact absorption.

Processing Technique and Property Evaluation of Stab-Resistant Composite Fabrics

In this research, the nonwoven fabrics were made of 50 % high-tenacity polyester fiber and 50 % low melting polyester fiber, after which the nonwoven fabrics were thermal-treated at 110 °C, 120 °C, 130 °C, 140 °C and 150 °C for 1 min, 2 min, 3 min, 4 min and 5 min. Next, two layers of nonwoven fabrics were laminated with a layer glass (GF) fiber plain fabric or a layer of Nylon 66 grid, forming the sandwich structure. The nonwoven/ GF composite fabrics and the nonwoven/ Nylon 66 grid composite fabrics were also reinforced by needle-punching and thermal treatment, after which the two composite fabrics were measured with tensile strength and stab-resistant strength. Meanwhile, two layers of nonwoven fabrics needle-punched served as the control group. According to the results, Nylon 66 grid and glass fibers plain fabrics were both good at strengthening, the former reinforced the tensile strength of the composite fabrics and the later heightened the stab-resistant strength of the composite fabrics.

Manufacturing and Stab-Resisting Properties of Compound Fabric Reinforced Using Recycled Nonwoven Selvages

Nowadays, the development of science and technology are rapidly, relatively, wastes brought more and more problems. Because the waste produced by the textile production accounts for 5% of total rubbish quantity, so how to reduce the pollution of the selvage wastes and how to effective treatment waste is the present primary task in the course of developing. This research is mainly to use two layers of the 7.0d polyester (PET) nonwoven as the base cloth of the upper strata and lower strata, and the selvage wastes of the PP are layered between them. The polyester nonwoven and selvage wastes combine by needle punching and thermal bonding than the nonwoven/ selvage wastes compound fabrics are formed. By this production, we can reduce waste quantity of selvage to achieve the environmental protection purpose, and increase the strength of the compound fabric. The results show when the weight of base cloth is 150 g/m2, the content of selvage waste in the compound fabric is 10%, temperature of thermal bonding is 220 °C, the liner velocity of the thermal compress roll is 0.5 m/min and the density of needle punching is 400 needles/cm2, the compound fabric has best mechanical properties. The stab resistance and the application of the compound fabric in geotextile are evaluated by test according to ASTM D4632 and ASTM D4533 standard.

Effects of Needle-Punch Depth on Properties of PET/LPET/Kevlar Nonwoven Geotextiles

Geotextile has been commonly used in civil and geotechnical engineering applications, and the majority of geotextiles is made of nonwoven fabrics. Therefore, this study combines crimped polyester (PET) fibers, recycled Kevlar unidirectional selvage fibers, and low-melting-point PET (LPET) fibers to form PET/Kevlar/LPET nonwoven geotextiles, and then examines how various neelde-punch depths influence mechanical properties of the resulting nonwoven geotextiles. The tensile strength, tearing strength, bursting strength, and static puncture resistance of the nonwoven fabrics increase as a result of an increase of 0.3 cm to 0.5 cm in needle-punch depth. However, an increase of 0.5 cm to 0.7 cm causes a slight decrease in all aforementioned properties.

Mechanical and Physical Property Evaluations of Kevlar/Polyester Complex Nonwoven Fabrics

Geotextiles made of nonwoven fabrics can be used in different fields, such as groynes, dams, seawalls, revetments, dunes, and hillsides, and the structures of nonwoven fabrics can be changed accordingly. This study explores the influence of different content of Kevlar fibers on the mechanical and physical properties of Kevlar/Polyester (PET) complex nonwoven fabrics. As specified in a nonwoven fabric manufacturing process Kevlar fibers and PET fibers are blended with various ratios to form Kevlar/PET complex nonwoven fabrics, which are then tested for tear strength, air permeability, and water permeability. The experiment results show that increasing Kevlar fibers reduces the tear strength, air permeability, and water permeability.

Manufacturing Technique and Property Evaluation of Impact-Resistant Polypropylene/Glass Fiber Composites

Using the injection molding method, impact-resistant polypropylene (PP) and glass fibers (GF) with weight ratios of 5 wt%, 10 wt%, 15 wt%, 20 wt%, 25 wt% and 30 wt% were blended twice, completing high-impact PP/ GF composites. Next, the tensile strength test, flexural stress test and IZOD impact strength test measured the composites. According to the results, with an increase in glass fibers, the composites exhibited a greater tensile strength, which further reached to climax when the GF weight ratio was 25 wt%. However, tensile strength appeared inversely proportionate to the blending frequency. In addition, regardless of blending frequencies, the optimum flexural stress occurred when the GF weight ratio was 25 wt%; nevertheless, it started declining when the ratio was 30 wt%. Finally, indicated by IZOD impact test, the greater the GF weight ratio, the lower the impact strength the composites exited.

The Influence of Hot Pressing Temperatures in Needle Punching Nonwoven

Non-woven textile industry in an emerging field, with the process short, high yield, low cost and wide source of raw materials, but also has excellent performance of many functions on, making non-woven over the past half century gained textiles attention and consumers of all ages. The proportion of the world of non-woven fiber material used in the product, 85% in rayon ,and the other 15% in natural fibers, polyester fibers which accounted for the largest proportion of use. The experiment uses a low melting point polyester fiber (LPET) 20%, three-dimensional hollow curly polyester fiber (TPET) and recycled far infrared fiber (REPET) 40% each as the basic conditions change pressing temperature 100 °C-140 °C, in order to observe and compare the effects of temperature on the non-woven fabric, this experiment tests including air permeability, tensile strength testing, infrared testing and SEM, respectively in different hot pressing temperature, each of the non-woven hot pressing temperatures sample go through microscopic to analysis for non-woven with the hot temperatures strong reason to improve or decline with hot temperature of air permeability.

Property Evaluation of Polypropylene/Glass Fiber Complex Braids under a Base/Salt Environment

The earth can be strengthened by embeding geogrids within. Glass fibers, used in geogrids, are heat-resistant and have stable size and chemistry; however, they tend to break from the clefts on the surface. This project created complex braids for geogrids by wrapping glass fibers (GF) with polypropylene (PP) filaments, preventing the geogrids’ outer friction and combining two materials as a bind. An 8-spindle braid machine and a 16-spindle braid machine were employed for braiding process. The experimental group was divided into two subjects, one was PP/ GF complex braids heat-set and the other non-heat-set. Then PP/ GF complex braids were measured with tensile strength after being immersed in sodium hydroxide (NaOH) solutions and sodium chloride (NaCl) solutions.

Manufacturing Process and Property Evaluation of Functional Composite Yarn-Dyed Woven Fabrics Made from Bamboo Charcoal/Stainless Steel and TPU

Recently, development of technology increases human life quality and gradually raises the value of health protection in human’s concept. Bamboo has multi-functional including far infrared radiation, deodorization and anion generation. Therefore, bamboo charcoal has been widely used in textile industry. Moreover, development of technology also increased the electromagnetic hazard in human’s daily life. This study aims to develop a manufacturing process of functional composite yarn-dyed woven fabrics. In the manufacturing process, the materials included pure cotton yarn, stainless steel fiber(called metallic yarn) and viscose rayon yarn containing bamboo charcoal (called bamboo charcoal yarn) were used for making the bamboo charcoal/stainless steel composite woven fabric. The composite woven fabrics were woven by using same warp yarn and two kinds of weft yarn that contained bamboo charcoal and stainless steel. The composite fabrics had two different structures. Those fabrics were changed the order of bamboo charcoal yarn and metallic yarn. The ratios of weft yarn were 1 end of bamboo charcoal yarn to 1 end of metallic yarn and 3 ends of bamboo charcoal yarn to 1 end of metallic yarn. Furthermore, the fabrication of composite fabrics that included plain, 2/2 twill and dobby were changed. The composite woven fabrics were finished and laminated by TPU film to enhance the waterproof and vapor permeable functions. The laminated composite fabrics were evaluated by far-infrared coefficient, anion generation rate, water vapor permeability, water resistance, surface electric resistance and electromagnetic shelter property to obtained optimal manufacturing process.